“Aliyah Dada is one of the most pleasant and refreshing surprises of the contemporary Romanian cinema. Oana Giurgiu’s documentary is a personal, very well documented and intelligently presented investigation into the history of Jewish presence in Romania.”-Film Magazine, Romania

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Synopsis

A cultural renaissance is happening in Israel today, catalyzed by the half a million Romanian Jews in the country. Oana Giurgiu, a Romanian filmmaker raised under the "Supreme Communist Truth," rights history in her Dadaist-inflected film on the immigration of Romanian Jews to Israel. Oana's journey through time and geography produces a rich and deeply textured history beginning with the great Aliyah to the Holy Land, then 19th century Ottoman Palestine, through the horrors of the Second World War in Romania, and to the subsequent secret dealings by the Romanian Communist Party, and arriving at the cultural transformation happening today.

Director

Oana Giurgiu, graduate in Journalism and Law, is a producer of films, TV programs and music videos. She is currently executive director of Transilvania International Film Festival.

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